Based on the premise that experience exists, nine logical constraints follow — not as theoretical preferences but as unavoidable consequences of that single premise, each derived from those before it. Together they form a diagnostic instrument of unusual precision: applied to physicalism, functionalism, panpsychism, idealism, and process philosophy, each fails — and the chain identifies exactly where and why. The Nine Inevitabilities doesn't argue for a preferred theory of consciousness. It establishes what any viable theory must satisfy.

Every major theory of consciousness attempts to derive experience from something constitutively incapable of yielding it. The Theory of Now and Then (TNT) refuses this move. Taking Awareness as irreducible ground, TNT specifies a formal architecture within which the existence of experience is not mysterious but precisely constrained. What emerges is unexpected: the same shift that dissolves the hard problem also dissolves quantum "spookiness," changes the understanding of time and space, recasts physical reality, grounds genuine agency, explains the privacy and unity of experience, and clarifies why identity persists through physiological change. A simple shift in what is taken as primitive. Multiple dissolutions across philosophy, physics, psychology and more.